Our Grand Canyon - Non-Negotiable!

[Bryan Buchan]

Please get involved if you can, this is just relentlessly horrible, thanks!

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Arizona’s Republican delegation showed again today that its priorities are all wrong.

They are determined to open up the Grand Canyon to uranium mining.

The Republican delegation, led by U.S. Sen. John McCain and Reps. Jeff Flake and Paul Gosar, has put forward legislation that would give mining companies access to one million acres of public land – including the Grand Canyon National Park’s watershed.

Like many of you, I treasure the Grand Canyon and appreciate its unique role in our state’s identity – so much so that I’ve made sure to visit the canyon with my family so that my children will understand how important it is to Arizonans.

This is too important. Can you help me fight back by clicking here?
http://azdem.org/r/B/MTg5ODg/NTI1MzA/0/0/aHR0cDovL2F6ZGVtLm9yZy9jb250cmlidXRlLyMhIyE


The Arizona Republican delegation’s decision to prioritize this risky project for the mining industry over the integrity of the Grand Canyon and the communities at the risk of potential environmental disaster is unconscionable.

Republicans say opening up the Grand Canyon to uranium mining is about jobs. But if Republicans were so concerned about creating jobs, they would focus on sustainable economic development – not giving a short-term boost to uranium mines.

I need your help so we can mount an aggressive rapid-response program to let Arizona Republicans know our Grand Canyon is not for sale.

We can't let politicians who are in the pockets of mining lobbyists control the future of our state's most precious asset.

Yours in the fight,

Luis Heredia
Executive Director
Arizona Democratic Party

[elocs]

1. I've wondered if oil were discovered in the Grand Canyon if Republicans would cry,

"Drill baby, drill!" Now I know the answer.

[saras]

2. They were saying "explore, baby, explore" two decades ago. Where were you?

The problem is that we hate right-wingers so much that we don't read the plans they publish, decades ahead of time, outlining their plans and how they intend to get support for them.

I mean, how many Dems were complaining about the PNAC - BEFORE 9-11, when it became effectively too late to do anything about it?

[Diclotican]

3. saras

saras

How many know about PNAC before sept 11?.. I don't.. And I was not alone, even tho they had been in action for more than a decade by sept 11 2001

Diclotican

[handmade34]

4. get involved if you can...!!!

too precious to exploit